The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-21


than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle
HES; what is 10 made of Drops of water from
the hudson, other drops from the East River.
other drops from stagnant pool out ON New,
ark fatS-up yonder there, embodied in a
cloud, and the sun kindles it. If Col can mako
such IustrouS cloud out OF water drops many
OF them soiled and impure and fetched from
miles away, can He not transport the frag-
ments OF human body from the earth and
out OF them build radiant body! Cannot
God, who owns all the material out of which
bones and muscle and flesh are made, set
them up again if they have fallen! If a
manufacturer Of telescopes drop telescope
on the floor and it breaks can he not
mend 1t again so you can see through
III And If God drops the human eve q
into the dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can He not restore It'll Aye, If
the manufacturer of the telescope by a
change of the glass and a change of focus can
make better glass than that which was
originally constructed, and actually improve
it, do you not think the fashioner OF the
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold
additional forces CT the resurrection eye!
''Why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the
teadm Things all around us suggest it. Out
of what grew all these flowers. Out of the
mould and the earth. Resurrectedl Resur-
rectedl The radiant butterfly, where
did it come from! The loathsome
caterpillar. That albatross, that smites
the tempest with its wing, where
Near Be rgerac, France, in Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
explorer took the flower seed and planted
it, and it came up; it bloomed in bluebell and
heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried,
yet resurrected. A traveller says he found in
q mummy-pit in Egypt garden peas that had
been buried there three thousand years ago.:
He brought them out and on the 4th of June,
1S4{, he planted them, and in thirty days
Trey sprang up Buried three thousand
years, yet resurectcd "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead =
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
That adorns your persons and your homes.
In the hollow of a staff a Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progeni-
tors OF those worms that now supply the silk
market OF many nations. The pageantry of
bannered host and the luxurious articles
OF commercial emporium blazing out
from the silk worms. And who shall be
surprised if out of this insignificant earthly
body, this insignificant earthly life, our
bodies unfold into something worthy of the
coming eternities. Put silver into diluted
ever! No Put i'll some pieces of copper and
the silver reappears. If one force dissolves
another force organizes.
why should it be thought thing incredi-
hle with Won that God should raise the deadm
ne INSECTS new ana une worms crawIeu IasU
autumn feebler and feehler, and then stopped.
They have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensble but soon
the south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and the air and the earth will
be iull OF them. Do you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as He
does for the wasps and the spiders and the
snails' This morning at 1870 o'clock there was
a resurrection. Out of the night, the day. In
a few weeks there will be resurrection in all
our gardens. Why not some day resurrec,
tion amid all the graves9
Ever and anon there are instances of men
and women entranced.
trance is death followed by resurrection
after few days total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev William
Iennent, great evangelist of the last gen.
GRAFTON, of whom DR.. Archibald Alexander,
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic termS-Rev. William Ten
nent seemed to die, His spirit departed.
People came in day after day and said:
''He is dead he is dead But the soul that
fled returned, and William Tennent lived to
write out the experiences of what he had seer
while his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time that what is called suspended aui-
nation or comatoSe state is brief DEATH giving
the soul an excursion into the next world
from which it comes back, a furlough of
a few hours granted from the conflict
of life to which it must return. Do not this
waking up of men from trance, and this wax
ing up of insects from winter lifelessnesS, and
this waking up of grains buried three thou
sand, years ago, make it easier for you
to believe that your body and mine
after the vacation of the grave shall
rouse and rally, though there be three
thousand years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic reveille!
Psychologists tell us that while the most of
our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and the
loss of a finger is hinderment, and the
injury of toe-joint makes us lame,
Still that We have two or three use
less physical apparati, and no anatomist
or Psychologist has never been able to tell
what they are for. They are no doubt the
foundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indispensa-
bly, valuable i'll the next state The Jewish
rabbins had only hint Of this sug-
gestion when they said that in the
human frame there was a small bone which
was to be the basis of the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a de
Christian scientists of our day have found out
that there are two or three superhuitieS of
body that are something gloriously suggcs-
tive of another state
l called at my friends house one summer
day. | found the yard all piled up with the
rubbish of carpenter and mason's work Tho
door was Off The plumbers had torn up the
lioor. The roof was being lifted in
cupoa All the pictures were gone, and
the paper-hangers were doing their work.
ALI the modern Improvements were being
introduced into that dwelling There was
not room in the house fit to live in at that
time, although month before when | visited
that house everything was so beautiful I
could not have suggested an improvement.
Ny friend had gone with his family to
the Holy Land, expecting to come
back at the end of six months.
vnen the building was to be done. And
)h, what was his JOY when at the end of SIX |
months, he returned and the old house was
Enlarged and improved and glorified! That |
IS your body. 1t looks well now-all the |
'ooms filled with health, and We could hardly |
make suggestion. Hut after awhile your soul |
will go to the Holy Land, and while you are |
gone the old house of Your tabernacle will |
De entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic, |
md every nerve, muscle and bone end tissue |
md artery must be hauled over and the old |
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned and |
'alsed ana cupoiaed and enlarged, and all the |
of heaven introduced and you |
viii move into it on resurrection day. ''For |
We know that if our earthly house of |
his tabernacle were dissolved, we have a |
uilding of God, house not made with |
ands, eternal in the heavens They are
cry fond of each other. Did your body ever
ave pain and your soul not pity it! or your
ody, have a joy and your soul not |
e-echo ita or, changing the ques
ION, dld your soul ever rave any
rouble and your body not sympathize
With it, growing wan and weak under the
epressing influenced Or did your soul ever
ave a gladneSs but your body celebrated it
'ith kindled eve and cheek and elastic step!
surely God never intended two such good
riends to be very long separated. And so
hen the worlds last Easter morning shall
ONE the soul will descend, crying: Where's is
~ body," and the body will ascend, saying.
Where is my soulN and the Lord of the res
ERECTION will bring them together, and it viii
e perfect soul in a perfect body. introduced